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inhabited

American  
[in-hab-i-tid] / ɪnˈhæb ɪ tɪd /

adjective

  1. having inhabitants; occupied; lived in or on.

    an inhabited island.


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Etymology

Origin of inhabited

First recorded in 1490–1500; inhabit + -ed 2

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The Jail Time Records studio is rudimentary - a small, sweaty recording booth attached to a room inhabited by a solitary computer.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Like many Americans, she read “Little House in the Big Woods” when she was a child and immediately fell in love with Laura “Half-pint” Ingalls, her family, friends and the world they inhabited.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

All were revolutionaries, changing the character of the world they inhabited and personifying the inventiveness at the heart of the American character itself.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

The crocodile lived between 3.4 million and 3 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, during the same period and in the same region inhabited by Lucy and her species, Australopithecus afarensis.

From Science Daily Jun. 13, 2026

That was the origin of Buckland, a thickly inhabited strip between the river and the Old Forest, a sort of colony from the Shire.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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